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1000 words for question 1 and 2 and for question 3 in not more than 500 words
for each subsection. Use relevant examples, illustrations as far as possible.

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Assessment Parameter

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20%

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20%

Concepts and Application related to the question

60%

Procedure / Steps

50%

Conclusion

20%

Correct Answer & Interpretation

30%

Case let:

Roughly 20 pieces of clothing per
person are manufactured each year. Growth of the multi-trillion-dollar apparel
industry has been fed by “fast fashion,” which makes clothing cheaply and
quickly with a low price-tag. Fast-changing trends and low prices have allowed
people to consume more. The average consumer is now purchasing 60 percent more
items of clothing compared to 2000

Cotton is the most common natural
fiber used to make clothing, accounting for about 33 percent of all fibers
found in textiles. Cotton is also a very thirsty crop, requiring 2,700 liters
of water—what one person drinks in two-and-a-half years—to make one cotton
shirt. In areas already facing water stress, cotton production can be
particularly damaging. In Central Asia, for instance, the Aral Sea has nearly
disappeared because cotton farmers draw excessively from the Amu Darya and Syr
Darya rivers. Cotton farming is also responsible for 24 percent of insecticides
and 11 percent of pesticides despite using about 3 percent of the world’s
arable land.

The carbon footprint of a garment
largely depends on the material. While synthetic fibres like polyester have
less impact on water and land than grown materials like cotton, they emit more
greenhouse gasses per kilogram.* (Source, National Geographic & WRI)

M/s Fine Fabrics Ltd, a listed
company, manufactures cotton fabric and its multiple blended variants as per
customer/client demands. Customers/clients include fashion houses, designers
and large clothing manufacturers across Asia & Europe. You are the Head of
CSR with the company.

Question. 1. As Head of CSR you have
been asked to come up with a detailed plan to sensitize your employees on water
as a critical resource and also initiate setting up of an innovation driven
cell/campaign for saving water. Design and develop a strategic plan/roadmap
involving sensitization of 100+ employees as well as setting up of the Water
innovation cell/campaign with SMART goals/outcomes for M/s Fine Fabrics Ltd.
Please be very specific and relevant to the company.

Answer:CLTS emerged in the
year 2000 as a participatory way to deal with address OD (Kar and Chambers,
2008), and is currently a settled approach that has been executed in more than
50 nations (IDS, 2011). CLTS was acquainted with Kenya in 2007. At the origin
of this undertaking in 2011, CLTS in Kenya was centered around approaches,
techniques, and institutional game plans broadly; and on town level usage
locally (Crocker and Rowe, 2015).

Question. 2. Your company is committed
to protect, respect and remedy Framework of UN Principles on Business and Human
Rights. The Head of manufacturing at M/s Fine fabrics Ltd wants to partner with
the supply chain in generating similar Human Rights commitments across their
businesses, which are mostly midsized. He wants your guidance on how to
convince these vendors to buy in into this voluntarily. Develop a business case
and a broad plan that your Head Manufacturing can use to convince the vendor
businesses to come on board and adopt UN Principles for Businesses & Human
Rights.

Answer:Maintaining a strategic distance
from a Treaty: That
argument helped concentrate some government
minds. The Commission asked Kofi Annan, at that point UN Secretary-General, to
delegate an agent to outline a path forward. Teacher John Ruggie was the
designated man. More than six years he ran a watchful

Question. 3. a)Carbon
Offset is one mechanism used to reduce the carbon footprints of a business.
Suggest to your CEO at Fine Fabrics Ltd two concrete ways in which Fine Fabrics
can reduce its carbon footprints, develop a convincing business benefit
argument around each of the suggestion.

Answer: A carbon
credit is a considered to be a generic term
for any tradable declaration or permit speaking to one side to discharge one
ton of carbon dioxide or the mass of another ozone harming substance with a
carbon dioxide equal (tCO2e) proportional to one ton of carbon dioxide.

Carbon credits and carbon markets
are a part of

b) An NGO has approached the CEO of M/s
Fine Fabrics Ltd requesting funding for a project on cotton fabric based
Traditional Crafts making workshop for girls & women from weaker socio
economic background. Your company falls under the criteria of 2% spend on CSR
as per Companies Act 2013. Your CEO thinks this project can be funded but wants
you to do the due diligence of the NGO. Prepare a questionnaire with at least
5/five questions that you think your company should ask and receive answers to
before agreeing to fund the project/ partner in the project.